turgescent

adjective

Roget 577: ornament etc. v.; beautified etc. 847; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic^†, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent^†; sesquipedal^†, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.    antithetical, alliterative; figurative etc. 521; artificial etc. (inelegant) 579.    ... show more

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